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United States Patent | 6,264,301 |
Helterline ,   et al. | July 24, 2001 |
The present disclosure relates to replaceable printing component for an ink-jet printing system having at least one replaceable printing component. The replaceable printing component includes an electrical storage device responsive to printing system control signals for transferring information between the printing component and the ink-jet printing system. The electrical storage device includes a tag family identifier for selecting a family of tags from a plurality of families of tags. Also included is a plurality of tags associated with replaceable consumable parameters. Each of the plurality of tags have a tag value associated therewith. Wherein the ink-jet printing system reads the tag family identifier from the electrical storage device to select the family of tags. Each tag of the plurality of tags read by the ink-jet printer is identified based on the selected family of tags and is used to identify the associated replaceable consumable parameter.
Inventors: | Helterline; Brian L. (Salem, OR); Paulsen; Ronald R. (Vancouver, WA); Bauman; Joseph H. (Brush Prairie, WA) |
Assignee: | Hewlett-Packard Company (Palo Alto, CA) |
Appl. No.: | 076449 |
Filed: | May 11, 1998 |
Current U.S. Class: | 347/19 |
Intern'l Class: | B41J 029/393 |
Field of Search: | 347/19,49,86,87 399/107,110,24 |
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